Video: Who Will Win the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Drama?

The Pulitzer Prize Board today will present the 2026 award winners for Prizes in Journalism, Books, Drama and Music. Who will win this year? Tune in right here at 3pm to watch the announcement live!

The Pulitzer Prizes were established by Joseph Pulitzer, a Hungarian-American journalist and newspaper publisher, who left money to Columbia University upon his death in 1911. A portion of his bequest was used to found the School of Journalism in 1912 and to establish the Pulitzer Prizes, which were first awarded in 1917.

Recent winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama include Purpose (2025), Primary Trust (2024), English (2023), Fat Ham (2022), The Hot Wing King (2021), and A Strange Loop (2020). 

The 19-member Pulitzer Board is composed mainly of leading journalists or news executives from media outlets across the U.S., as well as five academics or persons in the arts. The dean of Columbia Journalism School and the administrator of the Prizes are nonvoting members. The chair rotates annually to the most senior member or members. The board is self-perpetuating in the election of members. Voting members may serve three terms of three years each for a total of nine years.

Learn more about past winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the history of the prizes.